On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 1:03 PM, The GUIGuy <linux at finalfiler.com> wrote:
> On 17/12/10 05:56, Greg Oliver wrote:
>>>>> They are probably just the system's checks. You can turn off "Disk
>> Notifications" under Preferences->Startup Applications to disable
>> these..
>> Hi Greg,
>> No, they were warnings and I was prevented from performing an update
> that needed 17MB of free space.
Oh, you are asking for trouble if you use the default /var/mythtv
directories for mythtv if they are not on a separate partition. It is
best to completely distinguish mythtv SG directories from the default
OS directories. What you are seeing is because /var is holding them
both, and since /var is important for any OS related function with a
"variable" amount of space, the upgrades are failing.
I would definitely carve out some space for mythtv and separate it
from /var, or at least make /var/mythtv a separate partition.
> I subsequently found a couple of files in /var that I could delete.
>> I notice /var/mythtv/recordings has a couple of thousand files in it,
> amounting to about 1.6T, yet the recording list in mythtv is empty. I would
> have thought the mythtv housekeeping would be more timely?